Ball Peen Hammer Hail Damage

With assistance from scott morrison p e.

Ball peen hammer hail damage. Marshall and scott j. Attempts to simulate hail damage with a ball peen hammer. A line of impact marks b circular arrangement of impact marks c impact marks perpendicular to each affected slope with no marks on the ridge. Intentional roof damage examples.

Wind effects on asphalt shingles by timothy p. Hyland s company rejected the claim telling the claimant that clearly the vehicle had been purposefully damaged not by hail but by a ball peen hammer. Ball peen hammer test by timothy p. Insurance claims dirty tricks when there was a big hail storm here in o6 state farm accused a local contractor of felony insurance fraud for creating fake hail damage.

When the adjuster inspected the damage he was skeptical that hail could have caused the perfectly symmetrical round divots that peppered the entire surface of the damaged car. Volved in damage assessment including a 20 year study of hail damage to cedar shingles and a 15 year study of hail damage to asphalt shingles. A ball peen or ball pein hammer also known as a machinist s hammer is a type of peening hammer used in metalworking it has two heads one flat and the other called the peen rounded. Marshall richard herzog and scott morrison.

Come to find out it was actually one of their adjusters who did it and the contractor was awarded 14 5 million for defamation. The damage is much more convincing when the round end of the hammer head is used as opposed to the claw end but the people who use these haven t yet discovered ball peen hammers. Herzog and jeffrey r. Shingle damage pattern intentional figure 10.

Other studies have been conducted on hail damage to various other types of manufactured roofing materials. It is distinguished from a cross peen hammer diagonal peen hammer point peen hammer or chisel peen hammer by having a hemispherical peen. Shingle damage caused by hammer figure 11. Steelhead 5 piece fiberglass handle hammer mallet set 16oz ball peen hammer 32oz ball pein hammer 32oz rubber mallet 3lb sledge hammer 3lb cross pain hammer metal working usa based support.